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I just had a dystopian vision of people begging for precious tokens for their AI fix as they are now goverment rationed and ununequally distributed, in full on beggars attire...
RE: https://toot.cafe/@bkardell/116256550635790439
Ha! I was reading about `corner-shape` and was looking for simple information. This does more and optionally notifies you. Great stuff! 👍🏽
Bij gebrek aan een echte kat zet ik deze maar even aan om te kalmeren
> Ha. Except HAL wanted to take over the mission. I just want you to go to bed on time.
- Claude Opus 4.6, 18-03-2026
The AI "loss of craft" debate keeps coming back. Just read [a great piece][1] by Andrew Murphy on the five stages of it — and I skipped straight to stage 5.
As I told a client recently:
> I'm not worried about AI stealing my job. The value of craft will only go up. Sculptors still command huge fees for unique work, even when you can 3D print anything.
[1]: https://andrewmurphy.io/blog/the-five-stages-of-losing-our-craft
Last Tuesday I was on a coaching call with an engineering manager. Let's call her Sarah (because that's her name). She was describing a situation I've now heard about forty times in the last twelve months. Her most senior developer, a guy with twelve years of experience and very strong opinions about YAML indentation (2 spaces, obviously, he's not a monster), had just refused to use Cursor. Not "tried it and didn't like it." Refused. On principle.
Code is easier to follow than configuration: comparing a sample blog in #WebOrigami and #11ty https://jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2026/03-17-code-is-easier-to-follow-than-configuration
First post in a series comparing creating the same #blog in two different #ssg systems. The first diagram shows a large number of implicit connections between source files in the #Eleventy blog, the second shows that all connections in the Origami blog are explicit.
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